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using System;
using System.Text;

namespace Encog.Util
{
    /// <summary>
    /// Simple class for string utilities.
    /// </summary>
    public class StringUtil
    {
        /// <summary>
        /// Compare two strings, ignore case.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="a">The first string.</param>
        /// <param name="b">The second string.</param>
        /// <returns></returns>
        public static Boolean EqualsIgnoreCase(String a, String b)
        {
            return a.Equals(b, StringComparison.CurrentCultureIgnoreCase);
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Simple utility to take an array of ASCII bytes and convert to
        /// a String.  Works with Silverlight as well.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="b">The byte array.</param>
        /// <returns>The string created from the byte array.</returns>
        public static String FromBytes(byte[] b)
        {
            var b2 = new byte[b.Length*2];
            for (int i = 0; i < b.Length; i++)
            {
                b2[i*2] = b[i];
                b2[(i*2) + 1] = 0;
            }

            return (new UnicodeEncoding()).GetString(b2, 0, b2.Length);
        }
    }
}
